Saturday's Sound Off

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Iím a property owner and every year the property taxes go up for everyone. Itís not right that they donít help people who need the help to keep their homes who are losing them due to the property taxes and foreclosure. Every year it gets harder and worse.

DISGUSTEDSenior citizens, working Americans, unemployed veterans, hold onto your hats. Now HUD wants to give a house to people collecting Section 8 vouchers. Use their voucher to buy a house and they will help them with heat, electric, any major expenses, the taxes. What is going on? Thereís no money to help seniors or veterans. Where is the money going to come from for all this freebie stuff? There go the neighborhoods, town and country.

THANKS HUD, DOING A GREAT JOBTo Happily Married Catholic, Iím the one who responded to the Proud Gay Woman. I did not say anything about the men giving themselves to the Lord and becoming priests. That definitely does not give them the right to molest young boys. I never said that and assumed anything like that. That is not right. Itís about men and women, not men and boys.

I agree about the bus shelter on High Street at the east end of town in front of the Dairy Queen. There is no shelter there anymore and people need it in that area. I use it a lot when I go to the doctorís at PMA and then come over to wait for the bus. Itís hard to stand there in the heat and the bus always runs late on the hour. Itís wrong not to put it back there.

This is to the person who says we need the draft back. You know it wonít be the little white rich boys or the politiciansí children getting drafted. It will be the young black men and my grandchildren. I donít want that back. If they choose to go in the service, thatís their business.

I read where people are complaining about tenants hanging dirty sheets for curtains. The slumlord I rented off of actually had siding, shingles and garbage laying around the house for two years. So donít blame the people who live there, blame the slumlords.

If anyone knows of a homeless center or senior citizen meeting area that could use a TV/DVD/VCR combo plus VCR movies, please call me at 610-489-7732. Itís in very good condition.

About the guy who leaked all these secrets about the U.S. government and heís now living in Russia, blame it on the media also. It was on the news that the U.S. has an unmanned fighter jet now. Every time something happens itís all over the news anyway so whatís the difference if somebody leaks out a little secret because the media leaks out more than that and itís everyday. Itís fear and consumption.

SICK OF THE U.S.The Jefferson House which is an apartment building at the corner of Jefferson and Charlotte is very nice. The investors took great care of it and they really made it nice. They decided to put lines down on the street so the people would know where to park and it looked really good; it was really nice and professionally done. The codes department came out and said they canít do that. Is the codes department going to show these people how to park?

If a husband and a wife both work 20 years or more and the husband dies and she gets his SSI, what happens to hers after she worked for all her life? She should get both. The government takes all this money people work for. What happens to her money after sheís done working?

Why do we need to get an ID card to vote but not to get one to buy a gun?

I know that all of you when you realize the system isnít working, you change it and improve it. Why canít we do that with government and our judicial system? All these lawyers and judges are very well trained in the law and yet we have housewives and plumbers decide the fate of those who come to trial. We canít go in 2013 by the rules that were adopted in 1776. Letís change.

I am so sick and tired of hearing about Trayvon Martin and Zimmerman. It happened, itís done and they had the trial. I canít believe Obama told us to honor Trayvon Martin. He was kicked out of school, he did drugs, he was always in fights and things go on and on about him. This president needs to keep his mouth shut about stuff like this. He needs to worry about finding people jobs instead of worrying about things like this.